Model comparison
DeepSeek Coder 33B vs Llama 3.2 3B
Llama 3.2 3B has enough public results to be ranked (#321); DeepSeek Coder 33B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Last verified . 2 shared benchmarks.
DeepSeek
MetaSummary
- They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. DeepSeek Coder 33B scores higher in 1 category and Llama 3.2 3B in 0 categories; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in coding, where DeepSeek Coder 33B leads 38.0 to 27.6.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is BigCodeBench Complete: 51.1% for DeepSeek Coder 33B and 28.3% for Llama 3.2 3B.
Side by side
| DeepSeek Coder 33B | Llama 3.2 3B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | DeepSeek | Meta |
| Noometry Index | 38.9 | 28.9 |
| Released | 2023-11-02 | 2024-09-24 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | — | 131K |
| Max output | — | 118K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.05 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $0.33 |
| Results tracked | 9 | 18 |
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Category by category
Coding DeepSeek Coder 33B leads
DeepSeek Coder 33B: 38.0 (#184), Llama 3.2 3B: 27.6 (#319)
| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Llama 3.2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 42% | 23.4% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 51.1% | 28.3% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1098 |
| HumanEval+ | 75% | — |
| MBPP+ | 70.1% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
DeepSeek Coder 33B: —, Llama 3.2 3B: 20.1 (#143)
| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Llama 3.2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 21.9% |
| BALROG | — | 10.1% |
Reasoning Not comparable
DeepSeek Coder 33B: —, Llama 3.2 3B: 21.0 (#228)
| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Llama 3.2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1095 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 96.32 | — |
| WinoGrande | 62% | — |
Math Not comparable
DeepSeek Coder 33B: —, Llama 3.2 3B: 32.4 (#214)
| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Llama 3.2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | — | 1126 |
| GSM8K | 35.4% | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
DeepSeek Coder 33B: —, Llama 3.2 3B: 29.7 (#235)
| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Llama 3.2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | — | 1090 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 42.2% | — |
| MMLU | 39.4% | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
DeepSeek Coder 33B: —, Llama 3.2 3B: 26.2 (#281)
| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Llama 3.2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1019 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1017 |
| LMArena German | — | 1056 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 949 |
Instruction Following Not comparable
DeepSeek Coder 33B: —, Llama 3.2 3B: 56.0 (#275)
| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Llama 3.2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1089 |
Long Context Not comparable
DeepSeek Coder 33B: —, Llama 3.2 3B: 33.4 (#261)
| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Llama 3.2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1100 |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
DeepSeek Coder 33B: —, Llama 3.2 3B: 24.7 (#307)
| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Llama 3.2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1110 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1094 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 595 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1105 |
Frequently asked questions
Is DeepSeek Coder 33B better than Llama 3.2 3B?
Llama 3.2 3B has enough public results to be ranked (#321); DeepSeek Coder 33B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Is DeepSeek Coder 33B or Llama 3.2 3B better for coding?
DeepSeek Coder 33B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.0 versus 27.6 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do DeepSeek Coder 33B and Llama 3.2 3B share?
2 benchmarks have published results for both models. DeepSeek Coder 33B has 9 scored results on Noometry and Llama 3.2 3B has 18.